My Muslim neighbours, who have recently moved into our street, came around a week ago with some freshly cooked samosas in their hands to share with us, on a cold winter afternoon. The lady was wearing a headscarf. They didn't blend in; they stood out as kind hearted and open minded family.
Don't you understand those stuck in thier remote houses, totally disconnected from the rest of the human race, totally out of touch , do not know how to be be just social , without making about one up manship
Thats what these idiots don't understand, if you drop your unwarranted fear & simply engage with different cultures you can make incredible connections with some of the kindest friendliest people you could ever wish to meet.
Thats how they get you. They're nice and neighborly and get you to lower your guard. Next thing you know, you're treating them like human beings. Now its too late
Phil is so scared of Muslim family living next to him, yet he admitted he had never actually lived near any such family. Why is he so sure it would be terrible?
It's classic political science. People are afraid of what they don't understand. Typically people in the rural areas don't encounter people unlike themselves.
i've had muslim neighbours for about 8 years now.. they're brilliant people and neighbours and i'll be devastated if they ever move out and a phil moves in
I was born to Asian parents in the UK, but grew up here, school, uni, now I work for the NHS here and try and be an upstanding member of society. I have a friend from uni who was also born to immigrant parents in the UK, but his parents were from Poland. We have compared experiences, I have, sadly, experienced a lot of racism in my life. Dan has experienced none. Even though we are both first generation born here. Neither of us are religious or have anything else that marks us out. The only difference between us is my skin is dark and his is white. Anyone who says this isn't racism is deluding themselves.
More than agree with you and it is sad I have to. I am Dual Heritage and even though I teach music and attended the Royal College of Music, I am sometimes stereotyped as bad, selling drugs all because of my Carribean Heritage of which I am proud of.
@@MiketheNerdRanger .... average right thinking person/family in UK is also very angery about your Jewish being threatened, leavng the UK, and about UK democracy under threat from people who are fighting the UK from within.
Caller says that being liberal means 'wanting full human rights', then says it's 'ideal, but a false ideal that we cannot possibly reach'. Do these people even hear the words coming out of their mouths?
That guy really bieves that no Western woman will wear hijab. Every Western muslim I know who wears hijab wears it voluntarily. The whole point of the Islamic dress code for women is so that we will be KNOWN to be believing women. Our covering is part of our identity. We will not "blend in" instead of obeying our Lord. This guy needs to meet me or my friends and talk to real Muslim women because he has mo idea of what we are really like. He is so ignorant it is very sad😢.
@@Covers_Cuddles_Care cool and all, agreed and agreed, but i draw a line if your culture tells a woman well stone you to death if you dont wear hijab and then pushes it on their 12yo child too... IF a 12yo does it out of thier will, idgaf. proving it to not be their parents will will be harder...
Being British is all about driving a German Car to an Irish-Themed Pub to drink Belgian Beer then going home with an Indian Curry or a Turkish Kebab, to sit on a Swedish Sofa infront of a Japanese Television to watch American Shows and all the while being suspicious of anyone not BLENDING IN. 🤣
@@mackswellgg well just like Palestinians don't want Israelis in there country, swings and roundabouts. It's just Europeans that are not allowed to object for some reason
As an Englishman I have no problem in living next to a Muslim family, but I wouldn't like to live next door to some of us English people. There was a time when I was young all women wore hats or scarfs on their heads.
@@ModinikiLuli-m5n my society has been intertwined with yours. Come on… you must of known this was coming? It’s exactly what you did… but less violent. It’s a shame that our spirited battle is coming to an end. My only regret is that we won’t be alive to see it. But know this… your people will live forever in our memories. 😂
@@ModinikiLuli-m5n yes we do,not all brits are council chavs or rich .Many Irish Scottish,are respectful to elders,dont forget many countries even drink beer more than us,Pakistani also have problem with cousin marrige
The Entire Call: I've heard something and i've come here to repeat it. I didn't come to this conclusion myself so I can't explain my reasoning. I can try to make up some reasoning on the spot to justify it but i'd rather just repeat what i've heard others say.
@@SamanthaShore-b1c so if jhon barnes moved in next door or one of those devout church goers from any one of thoes english speaking carribbean islands he'd be fine would it be all gravy id be curious to know
Strange that when these little Englander individuals live abroad they want to open English pubs, chips shops, and shops selling UK products, all live close together and often never learn to speak the local language.
Heaven forbids if these 'expats' should ever integrate local culture and demand Sunday roast in Spain. . No one challenges the conduct of English people abroad
My daughter lives next door to a Muslim family in East London. . They grow vegetables in their garden and bring her wonderful produce all summer. So Phil could really be missing out.
Last Muslim family I loved next to used to bring us food in the evening during Ramadan. They were lovely folks, never any trouble at all. Some of the best neighbours I've ever had
@@KevinTalbotTVI was born and raised there I'm the son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Pakistani Imigrant father does that mean I'm also not welcome in my own country? Also these so called people who don't blend in provide some of the most important services that we need . Taxis food shops healthcare etc . Let me ask you a question if you had to see a doctor and that doctor wasn't dressed in western clothing would you refuse to see them?
Phil. The kind of guy who saves up all year to spend two weeks in Majorca and spends his entire time there eating and drinking British food and drink because he doesn't like "that foreign muck", then goes home after 2 weeks and orders an Indian or a Chinese takeaway because there's no food in the house.
As a French, I am really disturbed to see all these cars coming with this big UK sticker on the back and the steering wheel on the wrong side, this is a really cultural shock for us here 😂
@Raymondo666 Condescension? Seems to have got your number dead on. Small man, small mind, stuck in a past which will never come back thinking that Britania could rule the waves again and Spitfires will fly over the white cliffs of Dover keeping those horrible immigrants out of out country. Sad.
I haven’t laughed so much! 😂🤣😂 I’m a Black woman and have been trying to blend in the dark areas around my eyes for the last 2 months! If I succeed, will the caller be accepting of me? 😂😅😂
Hmmm, I'm a white man with a genetic condition that means I look a bit "outside the norm." I've tried to blend in but it generally fails, so I'd better not move next door to Phil either... 🤔😂😂
Or they could just feel like John Cleese said, when he pointed out that your 'tolerance' has erased England, that England no longer stands here, that English Values and Principles have been eradicated from England. The English people, entirely dispossed and silenced in what was once their homeland.
He always values the concerns of the underdog over the vast majority. He always picks the easily defensible position, never sticks his neck out. Conflates concerns over migration, lack of community, homogenised society (like Japan for e.g.) with racism. James is one gear.
@@PF9O "He always values the concerns of the underdog over the vast majority. He always picks the easily defensible position, never sticks his neck out." That's a juxta-position. Also, if an idea is easily defended, then surely it's the better idea?
@@Brandalar Maybe the callers should learn to use plain English rather than their dogma. Further, the vast majority of these people just eant to rant on their soapboxes. They are masters of run-on sentences and will jump from goalpost to goalpost without a breath in between.
And they say racism doesn't exist anymore...it's alive and well, it takes different forms,names and faces. Hiding in small little villages and big cities.
"That is cultural appro-- that is cultural indoctrination". He almost said appropriation because it's another buzzword floating around for people like him to get mad about.
@@Lasquez111 that's the point though? James knows exactly what Phil is saying because he's only saying anything if you read between the lines. What he's trying to do is get Phil to realise that he's called a national radio show and his only point is "I judge people based on the colour of their skin"
Phil is a product of a person who has lived his life in a bubble, never interacted with a another person from a different cultural, or different perspectives on life. I love the way James handled him.
because they think they're intelligent and will show him up with their bulletproof argument that has more holes than swiss cheese and soon find out they aren't quite as smart as they think they are so they get defensive with embarrassment. pretty simple really
If Phil had to go live in a different country (like Greece) would he try to "blend in"? Or would he just expect everyone to speak English? and get annoyed with anyone who doesn't? I have a feeling trying to "blend in" would be the last thing he'd do.
The more important question is, would he speak English at home or Greek? Would he celebrate English festivals or Greek festivals? If he isn't trying to "blend in," he doesn't belong there.
I've been lucky enough to have had a job that has taken me around the world working with some extremely nice people and the one thing I can say is it doesn't matter where people are from or what religion they are we are all the same trying to look after our families in any way we can, racism is the sign of an uneducated person who thinks they are better than everyone else when in fact the opposite is the case.
The best employer I have ever had was a Muslim. My Lao neibours are actually fantastic and I live in Australia. Racism is so inherent in Western nations
Why do these kinds of people have an issue with Muslim women covering up but no issues with nuns? Both are covered for religious reasons. It really does baffle me. Let people wear what they want! Us brits do NOT blend in abroad, to the point most of Europe are getting sick of us 😮
The fact that you can identify a nun and you can't when some Muslim women cover everything possible, there are even outfits that cover the eyes. I think most people don't find it particularly friendly or safe.
@@mellow.marketer5677 Not sure what modernist churches you’ve been in but being in a large darkly barely lit church room with women wearing veils isnt “easy to identify” Most muslim women wear the hijab as nun’s do, the small number who wear the Burqa still take it off at airports or security checkpoints
Fish and chips. The chips were invented abroad. If you would ask him, if he knows that, he would tell you, they are an english food. Same is for tomatoes.
they enjoy speaking in dog whistles and don't like being made to speak their stance plainly. it lifts the gossamer thin veil that they're hiding behind. this is why JoB always asks lots of questions.
@@njp4321 kind of like how "woke" has been used to describe pretty much anything that sounds progressive. So annoying. Like how a conservative reviewer was commenting on how the creators of the new Dungeons&Dragons movie were emasculating men on purpose for comedy and how that is called "woke". No it isn't. Learn the meaning of the word or phrase.
Can someone find Phil so I can move my brown family next door and play bangra music all day and make samosas to dish out to all the neighbours except Phil
Years of experience dealing with idiots. After a while you just ask them to explain the meaning of the words that they are using. It usually turns into a comedy show at that point.
I am always concerened that James gas lights callers who have genuine concerns about the problems we are facing. He should just talk to the lefty bubble who live in nice leafy areas. Many people are sick of this hypocrisy.
@@iana2127 Forgive me, we were taught them both at school and that it was only Judaism that didn't observe the Old Testament, everything changes over time !
@@iana2127 Mathew 5:17 "Don’t think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill". - jesus. Meaning the Laws and prophets detailed in the old testament. Still want to try and pretend that Christianity isn't linked to the old testament?
This guy doesn’t sound much like a centrist (he just sounds like a small town bigot to me) but centrists certainly do exist and are capable of leaning both left and right.
The funny thing is that as a Muslim, I’m not only a decently nice neighbor because I’m a decent human being and I like to be nice to others, but also because I KNOW as part of my faith, I will have hard time getting into heaven if I’m not a responsible kind neighbor! This is true!
I am an atheist and I hope I am a decent human being. Religion has no weight when it comes to being decent, you either are or you are not. There is no evidence of an afterlife but when I am about to croak it I want to go thinking that I did no harm
Why do you believe there is a heaven? Because you have been told there is? What evidence is there for heaven existing? I'm only asking as I don't believe in heaven but I'm still a nice person who is nice to others. You really don't need to have any faith to be a polite and considerate person.
They choose to go and live amongst their own communities. That's why pockets of London, and even whole cities now (Leicester, Bradford etc), are made up of certain demographics. White Brits will soon be a distant memory.
Meanwhile O'Brien lives in a 90%+ lily white community. He doesn't have to deal with the coloured masses of the world, "that's for the peasants to deal with." He said.
@@Jcook941I have a strong dislike for James because of virtue signal attitude. I wonder how many of these "channel crossing migrating people" will he take into his house?? I really don't like James.
The British have spent a few hundred years going to other countries and expecting those countries to align with English values. It was called colonialism. Has this caller ever heard of that.
@@georgechapman9688They built some railways, but that doesn’t really balance out the rapacious asset stripping of the countries that were colonized, for the most part.
What boggles my mind is that these people voted for Brexit because they wanted to stop immigration. Brown immigration especially. Must have skipped geography class at school.
@Raymondo666 Another punter who has the ‘woke’ ‘feeling’. I’m looking for one who has a definition. Or are you just easily offended by anyone who disagrees with you on anything? And as far as I can tell, being easily offended is the basis of this ‘woke’. Clarify if I’m incorrect, but you sound woke.
I'm new here from Texas and James might be my new favorite person in the world. I love when intelligent, witty people hold these people's feet to the fire and outmatch them in intelligence at every turn. The way to my heart. 🖤
In Trinidad & Tobago we celebrate as a country, Divali, Eid-ul-Fitur, Christmas, our national dish is a version of African jollof rice, and Chinese culture is foundational with no race or culture wars, because we've learnt about each others culture.
The caller is not talking about people of other culture or religion. He is talking about himself. Even a white British christian person is a problem to him if that person doesn't look like him, behave like him and have the same personal values as him.
Not sure he has values , plenty of dislikes bet he was a hanger on to the school bully. Basically he is scared of life and feels safe only when he thinks those around him are like him. I am guessing his society is getting smaller and smaller until that guy in the mirror doesn't look like him.
As a Pole living in Britain I blend in very well. By being polite, empathetic, open-minded and by embracing the culture and practices of the UK while preserving my own. But the caller wouldn't see it by looking at me living next-door to him. And he wouldn't see all that looking at his non-white neighbours either.
No, Poles tend to be hard working and not cause problems. The same cannot said of people from places like Romania, Bulgaria and many other countries. @@nafeezabolia9724
@@anthonyanderson6463xenophobia is the word for a hatred of people from different countries. Regionalism would be someone from Wiltshire hating someone because they come from Somerset, or similar.
I've very happily lived out of the UK in the EU for the past 14 years. I left when I was 30-ish to be with my Spanish husband and I am now a Spanish citizen. Prior to that I spent 30 years living in London. My best friends were a Muslim, a Hindu, a Jamaican Christian, and me, an atheist. We all lived on the same street were around the same age and we had a cracking time throughout most of my 20's and early 30's. We had "Phil" who lived on the street and regularly got my Muslim and Hindu friends confused and was regularly corrected on bible verses by my Christian friend and we all found it hilarious. The only people who won't blend in are people like Phil because they refuse to. I will never be sad I left the UK.
Hunny do you think that spain is going to shelter the storm? Their demographic death date might be later than ours but it will still Barcelonise nonetheless. You are proving his point that you moved to spain where you are a free woman and you did not move to Afghanistan did you? Or eqypt, or Morocco, or saudi. Funny that.
I live in Spain. There are many Brits here who definitely don't blend in. Especially the ones who come for the football or retire in British-only communities on the Mediterranean coast. I don't care at all, but everybody outside their own country stands out a bit.
But the Brits and Spanish share many values, generally liberal, both enjoy a cerveza at a bar/pub, allow women to dress as they see fit, love football, protect the rights of the persecuted, the pursuit of justice. They share culture where it counts. European. High immigration leaves little chance for a homogenised society, multiculturalism has failed even Merkel admitted that. It's society segregated.
@@PF9O those things are cultural all over. The world.. but multiple cultures and multiple races.. so i don’t see the point, just pointing the obvious your scared to say. I’m black South African, I enjoy ibiya(beer/cerveza) at my local Chisa nyama(bar).. we allow our woman to dress as they see fit, love idiski(football)…living here in the UK over 12 years now working as a chef(best place for a culinary career)… but to most people even though I share all this with them being from Africa is a problem for them. I Was recruited to come here, never crossed the chanel, never arrested, no benifits but every year I’ve been here I’ve been told to go home where I come from and I’m taking British jobs 😀. but If was European and white it would be ok, That’s the only time people like you accept multiculturalism(when people loom like them) because beers,pubs and football as you labelled them “cultural” similarities aren’t culture they are a leisure of choice and recreation something you choose to be support or partake in, culture is not! Your born into culture no matter your race.. as Europeans you only share the colour of your skin but culturally your different in so many ways
To all those who think that James was interrupting the caller - I agree. However, if the caller had simply stated his obvious concerns - that he didn’t want to live in an area full of dark-skinned people with religious beliefs that he rejected - I doubt that James would have interrupted him at all, but engaged in discussion about why he felt like that. Instead, he chose to try and mask his true feelings and got himself caught out like an idiot. James was entirely correct to ask him to say what he means.
You can’t really interrupt someone who isn’t actually saying anything. Nothing he was saying really made a point, or any form of coherent idea. It was just a ranty wobbling.
False. I'm sure most people think immigration is fine. It becomes a problem when it's forced on your area and the demographics of your home land changes, the culture changes, and crime goes up, and people just tell you to shut up and listen.
@@steveharrison76James was asking certain questions the caller would fail to answer straight forward 😅 ..he would simply try to get the called answer the question ...
Coming from across the pond, I love this guy. I love how he tries to make people define the words they use. The big word here in the USA is "woke" but most people who throw this around can't define it.
Defining woke is easy. It is an ideology that views all sociological phenomena as symptoms of some systemic device. In particular, it views all social ills as symptoms of systemic oppression.
I don't care who my neighbours are, they could be from Mars, as long as they are friendly, nice and civilised. I like to learn about other cultures and most of people I met were very nice.
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” - John Kenneth Galbraith
It’s embarrassing to move back to the UK and hear and see all this. Utterly embarrassing but so sad too, I’m laughing at parts of this but deep down it’s just so sad. Education is failing here.
Education? i think its 30/40 years since Phil was part of the education system. The children in the british education system currently are diverve and understand diversity.
I'm a white Scottish Muslim revert I'm married to a beautiful Pakistani lady my son a has just joined the royal navy my other son is at university and my daughter is aspiring to follow my oldest son into the armed forces all of my family are Muslim and i can honestly tell you living next to this person would be our family's worst nightmare is this the kind of person my son and daughter will be defending. if we moved in next to him our house would be straight back on the market 😟😢😢
I also know the culture, i lived in a shanty town in egypt for months and was overwhelmed by the hospitality shown by people who would often offer you the last food in their fridge to make you feel welcome. I felt embarrassed comparing my neighbours in uk who i barely know to egyptian standards in hospitality and kindness.
@Too Many NPC’s you will always see what you're looking for. In other words you will only focus on the negatives, just like this caller and blindly ignore anything else associated with a particular race/religion.
@Too Many NPC’s What problems? That non whites are too dark and don’t ‘blend in’? Why does everyone need to blend in, that sounds extremely boring and unnecessary
@@nsagoogle9581 I think they mean the call to prayer, which is briefly played out of loud speakers from the mosque. It may well be annoying, but it's no different from any other noise when you live in a city, or society in general. Taking issue with it (over dogs barking, motorbikes, kids screaming, loud music) is just intolerance against one culture.
I think you should treat people how you want to be treated. Case in point. I was travelling, with my mum, on a bus. We had to change busses and two Muslim women held my mum's arms as we crossed the road. And even when mum started talking about religion they just nodded politely. I would be proud to call them neighbours. Can British people stop being so bigoted. 😒🇬🇧💜
I think we all knew what Phil meant. however, he didn't have the ballz to say it on radio. Phil sounds like one of those middle aged blokes who wear barbour, live in the country, drive a range rover purely to impress others, and twitches his blinds whilst drinking red wine being nosey and gossiping at what's going on at number 52. Probably plays golf too. "The wannabes" imagine what's said behind closed doors! Centrist? Doubtful, I'm guessing lifelong Tory voter.
@sean Phil would probably aspire to the stereotype you describe but there's a level of biterness that suggests he didn't make it and he's looking for someone to blame.
Why didn’t Phil just say he didn’t want non-white people living next to him? It would have saved a lot of time and we’d all feel exactly the same way about him.
I don't 'blend in' while living in Thailand. Do the people have a problem with that? No, because Thai people are tolerant, live and let live. The country of my birth, which ceased to exist immediately after the referendum, used to display similar tolerance.
Translated: "These people aren't like us; they're different people with different values and we don't want them in our country." Kinda sounds like the language from 1930s Germany, but I don't think we're allowed to say that...
I can as though born in English I came to live in Germany in 1987 and teach .The Germans know their history and are sickened by it .The British like Phil thinks he is superior .So did a strutting Austrian .I've taken German citizenship way back BTW what is happening with some in UK is cause for concern .:) George Orwell must be wondering how he got the date wrong .Re content he was spot on :)....
My aunt said the covering clothing made her nervous. I pointed out the fear that woman felt for the safety of her teenage son in an American high school would have more a basis in reality. She realized the truth of that and relaxed.
"it seems like we are going backwards". A poll of young girls and women aged 13 to 18, found the majority, (80%) didn't feel safe going out on their own, Info from Girlguiding June 2021. That's why we are still having these conversations .
James asks them what these words mean because they’re so clearly pulled from rhetoric, not used as accurate descriptors. If you don’t understand the words or topics you use, don’t talk.
I think loads of people, myself included, use words we may not fully understand/know the definition of... BUT at the very least you can't be mad that people ask you to explain what those words mean to you. I'll admit I don't know what the definition is, but still do my best to describe what I think of when I hear or say said word. Phil couldn't even do that and just got angry. Amazing.
@@bananaz572171 Spot on. If you use a word or a phrase it matters little what the textbook definition is but more so what it means to you. Phil was trying to be clever and pretend his views are not xenophobic and prejudice by using a large helping of word salad that he was not prepared to truly explain.
It's a debating tactic, James O'Brien knows the definition of the word, the audience knows what he means by saying things like, for example, "cultural differences". But James O'Brien would rather get lost in the weeds looking for the caller to give a pristine definition than to just accept the 3 parties in the conversation understand what he means.
